William Peers Sculpture

William Peers is a stone sculptor based in Cornwall. He has carved stone for the past twenty years, exploring both figuration and abstraction. He exhibits regularly with the John Martin Gallery, London and Everard Read, London as well as in group exhibitions across the UK.

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Exhibitions

Forthcoming exhibition:

‘Fanfare’: 8th March – 30th March 2019

The exhibition includes 15 new sculptures, carved in Carrara or Portuguese marble. A e-catalogue of the exhibition is available to download here. All sculptures are also featured on our ‘Freestanding’ page.

Peers often produces series of work by following boundaries and rules, then works through the process, exploring the forms that emerge. Recently he has been investigating the movement of a line freed from the earth, travelling in space like an air current, weightless and uninhibited. The result was a series of sculptures with continuous loops, each one the journey of a slight volume through space. This new collection of sculptures is an exploration of the process of interrupting this loop.

“The point at which the form begins and ends seems to desire an event – a resolution,” Peers reflects, “A trumpet head, has been one solution. In other cases, the form has started to grow out of the base. I like the fact that this process has given rise to a shift towards figuration. We are at once reminded of creatures and plants in nature.”

A short film connected to the exhibition, and describing the process of carving in marble can be played below.